By Larry Wallace Click here for updates on this story LANSING, Michigan (WSYM) — Kaleb Blevins, 10, hasn’t had the easiest life. Just three years ago, he was diagnosed with a life changing illness. “Kaleb has an atypical meningiomas tumor,” said Kaleb’s great aunt Brigid Schlossberg. “They tried to operate on it twice and the
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included exotic getaways and trips on private planes and superyachts, a New York jury determined Friday, ordering him
Continue ReadingBy Elyse Schoenig Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY (WTVR) — A Kansas City-area middle schooler’s key chain design business is taking off thanks to Chiefs Kingdom. Quinton Smith is making and selling KC Kingdom key chains and donating the money to mental health support for health care workers in our area.
Continue ReadingBy Cameron Thompson Click here for updates on this story HANOVER COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — The historic Hanover Tavern is asking for the public’s help to find the people responsible for stealing items from its first-ever Black History Month exhibit on Friday, Feb. 16. Someone opened up a display case, which was not locked at
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A Wisconsin ethics panel is recommending that local prosecutors pursue criminal charges against one of Donald Trump’s fundraising arms and several other Republican committees that it alleges violated state campaign finance law in an effort to topple a powerful lawmaker who had run afoul of the former president. The Wisconsin Ethics Commission
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington celebrated on Friday as they signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to help recover depleted salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. The plan, announced in December, stopped short
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Cantrell Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WTVF) — Data shows from the Alzheimer’s Association Tennessee chapter that Black Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as older white Americans. Despite their increased risk, Black Americans are also underrepresented in clinical trials, making up 5% or less of all
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Family physician and public health specialist Dr. George Rust has warned some of his colleagues about a potential measles outbreak in Florida “for at least the past year,” he said, because of the rise in vaccine hesitancy in pockets of the community. Now, his fears have come true. The
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Two law firms filed a federal class-action lawsuit Friday against St. Charles Health System, accusing the hospital group of failing to provide the financial assistance to low-income patients that’s required by state and federal law, and instead sending those bills to debt collectors.
Continue ReadingBy Cesar Cornejo Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WMAR) — We introduced you to Linus, a dog that was featured in the puppy bowl while representing Baltimore and the Ronnie Stanley Foundation, but he is more than just a cute pup. Lakeland Elementary/Middle School is like any other school, but last week
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza and Emma Tucker, CNN New York (CNN) — A jury in a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General’s Office against the National Rifle Association found Friday that the gun rights group mismanaged charitable funds when it failed to stop top executives — including longtime leader Wayne LaPierre — from diverting
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The staggering civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump was finalized by a New York county clerk on Friday. The procedural step makes official a verdict that put the former president on the hook for more than $454 million in fines and interest.
Continue ReadingBy Anthony Reyes Click here for updates on this story CHEEKTOWAGA, New York (WKBW) — The Transportation Security Administration announced an officer at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport has been credited with saving the life of another officer. According to the TSA, Officer Marie Benny was nearing the end of her part-time morning shift and
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, Sharif Paget and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Two Mississippi National Guardsmen were killed Friday in a military helicopter crash that is under investigation, the Mississippi National Guard said in a news release. The National Guard AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed during a “routine training flight” around 2 p.m. near Booneville, Mississippi, according
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Nelson Click here for updates on this story PINELLAS PARK, Florida (WFTS) — A hospital security guard was arrested after police said he stole and used the debit card of a seriously injured patient. The Pinellas Park Police Department said Carlos Roman was seriously injured during a crash at the intersection of Belcher
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Un juez de Nueva York le ordenó formalmente al expresidente Donald Trump este viernes pagar US$ 454 millones, incluidos intereses, en una medida que le da al exmandatario un mes para depositar casi US$ 500 millones y así poder apelar al veredicto de fraude. ANÁLISIS | La aplastante derrota de Trump en
Continue ReadingBy Robert Boyd Click here for updates on this story TAMPA, Florida (WFTS) — Hillsborough County Fire Captain Devon Brady lives a large-scale life. From riding shotgun in a big-engine truck to putting up a huge art installation at a museum, he wants ABC Action News viewers to know that you can do both. “I
Continue ReadingWARREN, R.I. (AP) — A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window in Rhode Island that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has found a new home at a museum in Tennessee. The window installed at the long-closed St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Warren in 1878 is the oldest known public
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A cargo ship that was struck by a Houthi ballistic missile on Monday has created an 18-mile long oil slick in the Red Sea as it continues to take on water, two US officials said Friday. The M/V Rubymar — a Belize-flagged, UK-registered, Lebanese-owned vessel — was carrying
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press South Dakota’s Legislature has made it easier for the city of Sioux Falls to find new homes for more than 150 taxidermy animals of its arsenic-contaminated collection. A bill headed to Gov. Kristi Noem’s desk would allow the city to donate the collection to an out-of-state nonprofit.
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